libarchive: heap overflow OOB read while parsing a tar archive contains a PAX extended header

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation cou...

SUSE CVE-2026-15028

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation cou...

AZL-92331 CVE-2026-15028 affecting package libarchive for versions less than 3.7.7-7

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation cou...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-15028

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation cou...

CVE-2026-15028

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation cou...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-15028

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation cou...

EUVD-2026-42865

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation cou...

CVE-2026-15028

In libarchive, CVE-2026-15028 describes a heap overflow triggered while parsing a tar archive’s PAX extended header with a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. The vulnerability is exploitable remotely to cause DoS or potentially arbitrary code execution on affected systems. The root ca...

CVE-2026-15028 Libarchive: heap overflow oob read while parsing a tar archive contains a pax extended header

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation cou...

CVE-2026-15028 Libarchive: heap overflow oob read while parsing a tar archive contains a pax extended header

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation cou...

CVE-2026-15028

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation cou...

CVE-2026-15028

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation cou...

CVE-2026-15028

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation cou...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-15028

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue...

CVE-2026-15028

A flaw was found in libarchive. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue occurs during the parsing of a PAX extended header containing a malformed SUN.holesdata sparse-file attribute. Successful exploitation cou...

PT-2026-57143

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libarchive affected versions not specified Description A flaw in the parsing of a PAX extended header allows a remote attacker to trigger a heap overflow by providing a specially crafted tar archive. The issue specifically occurs when processi...

CVE-2026-53655

A flaw was found in node-tar. This vulnerability arises because node-tar incorrectly applies PAX extended header size records to subsequent intermediary metadata headers, leading to a desynchronization of the tar stream cursor compared to other standard tar implementations. A remote attacker coul...

async-tar PAX extension-header desync enables tar entry/content smuggling

Summary async-tar v0.6.0 mis-applies a buffered PAX size extension to an intermediary extension header a GNU longname L, a GNU longlink K, or a PAX x/g header instead of to the next file entry. POSIX requires a PAX extended-header record set to describe the next file entry, never an intervening...

GHSA-35RM-7J9C-2F7M async-tar PAX extension-header desync enables tar entry/content smuggling

Summary async-tar v0.6.0 mis-applies a buffered PAX size extension to an intermediary extension header a GNU longname L, a GNU longlink K, or a PAX x/g header instead of to the next file entry. POSIX requires a PAX extended-header record set to describe the next file entry, never an intervening...

Uncaught Exception

Overview tar is a full-featured Tar for Node.js. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncaught Exception through improper handling of NUL bytes in the src/pax.ts file. An attacker can cause the application to terminate unexpectedly by providing a crafted archive containing NUL byte...